The top rated TV show was Labour Party Political Broadcast (all channels) and the box office smash was One Hundred and One Dalmations.

Wayne has started a new blog and is currently uploading content relating to his lettercutting and typographic work – I’ll include a link here as soon as it’s up and running. Left to Right Brenda Willy, Joy Coots - Joyce Lewington, Joan Sandys, Christine Tanner, Dianne Wheeler, PAMELA TANDY, the one Joy is trying to find, ?My husband Roy Balcomb founded the Databac Group in Kingston upon Thames in 1970, producing Identity Cards. The top rated TV show was Coronation Street (Granada) and the box office smash was The Great Escape. The set contained 120 pieces of Monotype Gill Sans, although, rather curiously, the accompanying instruction leaflet was set almost entirely in Stephenson Blake’s rival sanserif, Granby. Its simple design made it easy to stamp short sentences by using the tweezers to insert the little rubber letters into the wooden blocks.

Sadly when my father died I was left the family cottage and as I was only 21 at the time I didn’t think and in my haste to sell I had most of the contents “cleared”. This has been an jnteresting thread and one of the links provided by David suggests one of the inks will print onto plastic - that is quite exciting if it will work on cassettes (wonder if the ink stains the letters blocks? The site carries no advertising, and I rely on donations to help with running costs and to keep the site running for your entertainment and education.

Nevertheless, the packaging for Masterbrain proudly stated that it was “brought to you by the makers of the famous printing outfits”. I used to have a John Bull printing set, which had a load of tiny rubber letters, which you would set into a wooden holder then press on an ink pad, and print out. I still have books that were my Dad’s, he stamped his name and address in them with the John Bull letters……Happy Days! A 1916 sales receipt from a Wandsworth stationer also clearly refers to a John Bull Printing Set, eleven years before the trade mark was registered with the Department of Trade. The John Bull trademark was sold to Dekkertoys of Peterborough in the late 1980s, but today the famous printing sets are no longer available.

A few years ago I saw one John Bull Printing Outfit in possession of the Stellenbosch Children’s Museum , South Africa. com, the Sell on Etsy app, and the Etsy app, as well as the electricity that powers Etsy’s global offices and employees working remotely from home in the US. Etsy’s 100% renewable electricity commitment includes the electricity used by the data centres that host Etsy. Nostalgia Central covers the period 1950 to 1999 and contains some words and references which reflect the attitudes of those times and which may be considered culturally sensitive, offensive or inappropriate today. The incorporation paperwork for the company is dated 23rd March 1922 and states that the company was founded “to carry on business as manufacturers and dealers in stamps and dies, toys, stationers’ sundries…and articles of any description”.Indy 800 Atari’s first racer, the little-known 1974 game Gran Track 10, wasn’t the hit that everyone had hoped it would be. A boxed John Bull printing outfit set went for auction for just 5 pounds last week, so you can still pick them up for a bargain. There was a pair of tweezers for handling the fiddly letters, it was easy losing some of the letters as they fell on the floor and bounced away.